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Title:Famine, gold and guns: the Suri of southwestern Ethiopia, 1985-91
Author:Abbink, Jon G.ISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:Disasters
Volume:17
Issue:3
Pages:218-225
Language:English
City of publisher:Oxford
Publisher:Blackwell
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:social change
Suri
famine
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/1887/9057
Abstract:Over the past few years (1985-1991), the Suri of the far southwest of Ethiopia have lived through a deep ecological and social crisis without substantial external aid from either the Ethiopian government or international aid agencies. They have experienced drought, cattle disease and an increasing level of violent conflict with their southern neighbours, the Nyangatom, leading to severe disruption of their traditional agropastoral subsistence system and settlement pattern. Through migration, the exploitation of gold resources and investment in automatic weapons, however, they have virtually managed a full recovery of their economy and society.
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